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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash string variable manipulation Post 302358953 by vgersh99 on Monday 5th of October 2009 09:22:22 AM
Old 10-05-2009
Code:
a=/path/to/dir/bin
echo ${a%/*}



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